If you are like most of my patients, I know you are doing all you can to ensure the health and safety for yourself and your loved ones during the current COVID-19 pandemic. While social distancing sacrifices are crucial for...
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Does your belly feel bloated or distended most days? Do you wake up with a flat tummy but by mid-day feel like you’re five months pregnant (and you’re not)? Digestive symptoms are not always things we discuss around the water...
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Food as Medicine Food plays a central role in health when looking at the body holistically. During the hot summer, there are certain foods we can eat to help cool our systems from the inside out, helping maintain balance within...
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Part One: Summer Introducing the Five Elements Much of acupuncture and Chinese medicine theory is centered around the five elements of metal, water, wood, fire and earth. Each of these elements corresponds with a season of the year: metal represents...
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How Community Acupuncture Restored Peace in a World of Pain The day that Susan Gaudet slipped on a small patch of black ice was the day her life changed forever. “I knew immediately that I was hurt,” says Gaudet from...
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Spring has sprung! The sun is (occasionally) peeking out from behind the clouds to thaw us from the winter chill, and, after months of being cooped up and bundled up indoors, we are all ready to get out into the...
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When Susan Gaudet went to Wildwood Medicine for treatment of her chronic pain, she had no idea that the treatments would handle her peri-menopausal symptoms, too. “I was very uncomfortable. I had this vague constant headache, and I was hot....
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Do you know why acupuncture can help restore harmonious balance? Westerners often use the term yin & yang to loosely describe masculine and feminine energy. “It gets used a lot on tattoos and logos but I don’t think a lot...
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Ahhhh Choo! At long last, spring has sprung! For many of us, the tender spring flowers, leaves and grasses blossom in tandem with runny noses, sneezing, itchy, red and watery eyes, headaches, brain fog, fatigue and scratchy throats. If spring...
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Healthcare that treats the person not the condition A conversation with Daniel Katz, co-founder of Wildwood, a holistic, integrative health practice on India Street in downtown Portland, Maine. Katz’s calling into holistic medicine came right after college when he first...
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